Travellers began to cross between Tunisia and Libya again on Saturday after a seven-month border closure due to novel coronavirus restrictions was lifted.

Tunisia is opening its land border with Libya in accordance with the bilateral sanitary protocol signed on Wednesday, which envisions measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Tunisian Prime Minister, Hichem Michichi, announced that he had granted permission to his country’s authorities to open the Ras Jedir border crossing with Libya.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of National Accord (GNA), on Wednesday, said it had reached an agreement in principle with its Tunisian counterpart to map out an urgent, unified health protocol between both countries, to be followed shortly afterwards by the reopening of air space between the …

The EU will help write Libya’s national strategy of border security and management, according to an internal EU document.

The 2010–2011 uprisings disrupted a long-standing informal arrangement governing border trade between Tunisia and Libya. Over the following decade, as Libya disintegrated into mutually hostile fiefdoms, Tunisia maintained its unity, transitioned from authoritarian to democratic rule, and increasingly shunned official dealings with competing Libyan power centers. As such, grassroots cross-border …

Libya’s Tripoli based Interior Ministry announced yesterday that it was ready to reopen the country’s borders with Tunisia, subject to adequate preventative health measures being put in place.

Hundreds of Tunisians stranded for weeks in war-torn Libya due to the coronavirus have returned home after forcing their way through a border crossing, the UN and aid groups said on Tuesday.

Update: Flights resumed after a brief suspension Air traffic has been suspended once again at Mitiga International Airport due to its incessant bombing, a statement on the airport’s Facebook page says. The media office of the Volcano of Rage Operation had confirmed earlier today, that the airport and the area adjacent …

The Presidential Council’s head, Fayez Al-Sarraj confirmed that they have reached an agreement with the Tunisian authorities to develop the procedures running the Ras Ijdir crossing-border and to solve all problems that hinder the passenger’s movement.